Louisiana Tech University has received one of 13 awards for its I-20 Corridor Regional Accelerator proposal as a winner of the Rural Jobs and Innovation Accelerator Challenge — a national competition designed to spur job creation and economic growth in rural communities by identifying and leveraging local assets and strengthening linkages to industry.

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A deputy coroner delivering a body to Kilpatrick Funeral Home saw flames coming from The Dean of Flowers, a business where Futch worked for years before purchasing it early last February.

As Futch and his staff were huddled together in darkness at the corner of North Jackson and East Washington streets, they watched their dream go up in smoke. Futch had no idea what the next 48 hours would hold.

“At 7 o’clock, I couldn’t see 7:02,” Futch said. “I had no idea what was going to happen.”

Louisiana Tech University will honor the memory of F. Jay Taylor on Saturday by naming the campus’ visual arts building for the former Tech president during a ceremony scheduled for 10:30 a.m.

The facility, to be known as the F. Jay Taylor Visual Arts Center, is home to Louisiana Tech’s School of Art and is located on Mayfield Street on the Tech campus, just west of A.E. Phillips Laboratory School.

GRAMBLING — The town of Grambling hopes it has put a fix to water pressure problems that have recently troubled residents there.

Marios Papadopoulos of American Wastewater Management told aldermen during this month’s Town Council meeting that a crew was slated to come to Grambling “and automate the system to prevent system fluctuations” that he said have been causing problems with the town’s water pressure.